Why are Britain’s most powerful positions still dominated by private school alumni?

Analysis: In some professions, those who attended fee-paying schools are more likely to get jobs than five years ago

Those who receive a private school education have a lot working in their favour (Bell/Shutterstock)

Britons who went to private school are still preserving their positions at the top of influential professions – despite the fact that just 7 per cent of the general population are privately educated.

And in some professions, you’re now more likely to get your foot in the door if you attended a fee-paying school than five years ago, a Sutton Trust and Social Mobility Commission report finds.

One of Theresa May’s first pledges as prime minister was to end the “burning injustice” that meant state school alumni were less likely to reach top professions than their privately educated peers.